Team

The KIŠIB project is carried out by an interdisciplinary team based at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). Together, they combine expertise in Near Eastern Archaeology, Assyriology, and Digital Humanities.

Project directors

Prof. Dr. Elisa Roßberger

Freie Universität Berlin
elisa.rossberger(at)fu-berlin.de

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Prof. Dr. Adelheid Otto

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
aotto(at)lmu.de

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Heads of research units

Dr. Albert Dietz

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Albert.Dietz(at)kishib.badw.de

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Dr. Sebastian Hageneuer

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
hageneuer(at)bbaw.de

Researchers

Jacob Jawdat, M.A.

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
jacob.jawdat(at)vaa.fak12.uni-muenchen.de

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Dr. des. Felix Rauchhaus

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities/Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
felix.rauchhaus@kishib.badw.de

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Saman Sajedi, M.A.

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Saman.Sajedi(at)kishib.badw.de

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Developers

Marcus Lampert, Ph.D. (Chicago)

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
lampert(at)bbaw.de

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Nils Hempel, M.A.

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
nils.hempel(at)bbaw.de

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Student assistants

Fabian Bleiziffer

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Fab.Bleiziffer(at)campus.lmu.de

Louis Happel

Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
louis(at)happel-zumdohme.de

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Olzhas Tleubayev

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
olzhas.tleubayev(at)bbaw.de

Alumni

Vincent Pfeil

Student Assistant
06/2025 – 08/2026
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Vanessa Friedrich

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Student Assistant
08/2025 – 12/2025
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
KIŠIB - Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings

The long-term academy project "KIŠIB — Digital Corpus of Ancient West Asian Seals and Sealings" is part of the Academies’ Programme, a research funding programme co-financed by the German federal government and individual federal states. Coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, the Programme aims to retrieve and explore our cultural heritage, make it accessible, highlight its relevance to the present, and preserve it for the future.